Book description
The most successful organizations of the future will be those that are capable of rapidly and effectively bringing about fundamental, lasting, system-wide changes.In response to this challenge, Real Time Strategic Change advocates a fundamental redesign of the way organizations change. The result is an approach that involves an entire organization in fast and far-reaching change. Interactive large group meetings form the foundation for this approach, enabling hundreds and even thousands of people to collaborate in crafting their collective future. Change happens faster because the total organization is the "in group" that decides which changes are needed; and the actions people throughout the organization take on a daily basis are aligned behind an overall strategic direction that they helped create.
Complete with conceptual frameworks, tools and techniques, agendas, and roles key actors need to play, this is the first book published on this powerful approach to organizational change.
The process Robert Jacobs details has proven effective in diverse settings, ranging from business and industry to health care, education, government, non-profit agencies, and communities.
Real Time Strategic Change demonstrates the flexibility and power of this approach in stories from such diverse organizations as Marriott Hotels, Ford Motor Company, Kaiser Permanente, First Nationwide Bank, United Airlines, and a group of 18 school districts.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Redesigning the Way Organizations Change
- Part II Moving Further into the Future, Faster
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Part III Getting Started in Your Own Organization
- 9 Unique Paths for Unique Organizations: Five Stories of Real Time Strategic Change
- 10 How to Use the Technology to Your Advantage
- 11 Designing Your Real Time Strategic Change Event
- 12 Who Does What to Support Successful Real Time Strategic Change
- 13 Keeping the Fires Burning, Once You Have Them Lit
- Part IV Pushing the Boundaries of Real Time Strategic Change
- Appendix
- References
- Index
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Real Time Strategic Change
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 1997
- Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- ISBN: 9781609941437
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